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re: You weren’t put on Earth to own a house
Posted on 7/28/25 at 1:37 pm to weagle1999
Posted on 7/28/25 at 1:37 pm to weagle1999
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What I am saying is people have been conditioned to think that a main purpose of their lives is owning a structure.
Do you live in a tent?
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Posted on 7/28/25 at 1:38 pm to weagle1999
You'll own nothing and be happy.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 1:42 pm to weagle1999
To be honest tho, I could live in a tricked out 4 season capable Mercedes Sprinter adventure van and be perfectly happy. I don't need much.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 1:49 pm to weagle1999
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How much of what you want is what you actually want or what society conditioned you to want?
Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.
What do you want? Are you able to decide for yourself or do you depend on TV commercials to help you?
We have Houses, townhomes, apartments, and tents.
You don't have to live under a bridge.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 1:54 pm to HubbaBubba
Right. Part of the affordability problem is that people aren’t willing to live in the same size homes that their grandparents lived.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 1:55 pm to BTROleMisser
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To be honest tho, I could live in a tricked out 4 season capable Mercedes Sprinter adventure van and be perfectly happy. I don't need much.
Fully tricked out offroad capable, these things cost as much as homes in many markets.
But no, I agree. I do not need much if I had the means to access even the most out of the way trout streams.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:08 pm to weagle1999
Perhaps Weagle would like to share his home with the countless homeless so we won't have to build more?
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:14 pm to weagle1999
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God or nature of the spaghetti monster didn’t create you with the life purpose of owning a house (substitute any of the 100 other things you have been convinced that you have to own).
Is it an assumption that the US should continue building new houses forever?
He says while typing on a computer via the internet.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:21 pm to weagle1999
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God or nature of the spaghetti monster didn’t create you with the life purpose of owning a house (substitute any of the 100 other things you have been convinced that you have to own). Is it an assumption that the US should continue building new houses forever?
So ….. you were put on earth to rent a apartment? Or maybe live in a trailer or a RV?
Maybe you’d like everyone living in a tent? Or to find a cave somewhere?
I really don’t understand your post? I get youre saying marketing makes you want things… but SHELTER is not really something you have to sell someone.
So what do you live in?
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:23 pm to Lynxrufus2012
quote:In all fairness, no builder is building starter homes like that and most municipalities and existing home communities would resist moves to do that and would not allow small cookie cutter homes with low income buyers. Regulation and land cost is the problem.
Part of the affordability problem is that people aren’t willing to live in the same size homes that their grandparents lived.
NOBODY wants to move into crime riddled neighborhoods and nobody wants to have a neighborhood next to them where you know the incidence of crime would increase because of a large influx of low income home buyers.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:24 pm to weagle1999
Having equity in one's home is an amazing doorway to generational wealth.
Further, property owners take care of their neighborhoods and have personal investment in local policies implemented (ie, have skin in the game) and tend to live in safer areas vs. neighborhoods full of renters.
Home ownership should still be held up as the ideal by society.
Further, property owners take care of their neighborhoods and have personal investment in local policies implemented (ie, have skin in the game) and tend to live in safer areas vs. neighborhoods full of renters.
Home ownership should still be held up as the ideal by society.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:29 pm to weagle1999
I need a good house so that a wolf won't huff and puff and blow it down.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:30 pm to weagle1999
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How many houses should be built in the US? 500 million? 20 billion?
Well, there are 7 billion people in the entire world, so 20 Billion seems excessive.
But the answer, put simply, is that as long as there is a buyer for homes, there should be homes being built. In other words, let the free market do its thing.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:31 pm to HubbaBubba
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nobody wants to have a neighborhood next to them where you know the incidence of crime would increase because of a large influx of low income home buyers.
There have been low income neighborhoods that weren't criminal hotbeds.
Aggressive police and justice could make many low income areas into low crime areas.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:31 pm to weagle1999
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Yes, but are you pursuing what would naturally make you happy or what marketing told you will make you happy?
I'm not sure I'm understanding what you are saying. If not houses, exactly where do you think people should live and raise their families?
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:33 pm to HubbaBubba
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NOBODY wants to move into crime riddled neighborhoods and nobody wants to have a neighborhood next to them where you know the incidence of crime would increase because of a large influx of low income home buyers.
I don't think we're talking about low income house seekers, though. We're told young professionals (even as couples) are having difficulty buying homes, and one of the reasons for that is first time homes are much bigger and far more feature-rich than they were a few decades back.
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In all fairness, no builder is building starter homes like that and most municipalities and existing home communities would resist moves to do that and would not allow small cookie cutter homes with low income buyers. Regulation and land cost is the problem.
Sounds like an enterprising young developer could make a lot of money building starter homes on the outskirts. Kind of like how it happened a few decades ago.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:33 pm to weagle1999
What are you even talking about?
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:40 pm to HubbaBubba
Average size house being built today is 2200 square feet. Cut that in half. It wouldn’t be cheap but people could buy but that wouldn’t be a hoodlum community.
Say the lot is $80,000 and you are spending $200 a square foot. It is a $300 k house. It would be a nice house.
Say the lot is $80,000 and you are spending $200 a square foot. It is a $300 k house. It would be a nice house.
This post was edited on 7/28/25 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:51 pm to weagle1999
no son mexican's cut my grass and clean my home. i even have girl that picks up my 140 lbs great pyrenees's poop. my son just turned 30 he's owned his house for 2 years, he even uses our maid.
what an abject failure you've been. you're like flounder in the movie animal house. fat, drunk and stupid really is no way to go through life son.
what an abject failure you've been. you're like flounder in the movie animal house. fat, drunk and stupid really is no way to go through life son.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 2:55 pm to weagle1999
Too late, I already own a house.
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